If you want to grab a bargain at the Hotel Morgan, you’d better hurry.
The liquidation sale at the iconic — and now shuttered — downtown Morgantown hotel ends today and there are very few items left to purchase, said Don Hayes, president and CEO of National Content Liquidators, the Springboro, Ohio, company running the sale.
“It’s been a successful sale,” Hayes said. “I am very happy.”
Right now armoires can be had for $10; sofa beds, $25; nightstands, $10; desks, $5; and micro refrigerators, $40. All of the mattresses, box springs, televisions and room safes have been sold, he said.
“Another hotelier bought all of the safes,” said Hayes, whose company bought all of the hotel furnishings from current ownership, the Brant family, who has owned the hotel since 1997.
“That’s what we do.”
NCL began selling off the contents of the 78-room hotel on Nov. 15. At the time, Hayes said he expected the sale to last three weeks. Instead, it’s finishing a week earlier than expected.
“The TVs sold out in two days,” he said.
The Dominion Post reported during this summer the hotel was being sold and a deal was expected to be finalized by fall. To date, no new owner has come forward. Calls to the hotel’s front desk are picked up by an answering machine.
Calls and emails to the Clarion hotel chain — part of Choice Hotels — were not returned. Clarion operated the hotel.
The hotel’s website said the venue is permanently closed.
Hotel Morgan, opened in 1925, is named for city founder Zackquill Morgan. The hotel, which has a two-story ballroom, has hosted Eleanor Roosevelt and President Harry Truman and was a campaign stop for John F. Kennedy in 1960.
It was last renovated in 1999 by the Brant family, during which an eighth floor was added. R. Theodore Brant died in 2000 at age 53.
According to documents filed in the Monongalia County Courthouse, Brant paid $1.35 million for the hotel in 1997.
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